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STANLEY KAUFFMANN
Stanley Kauffmann

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• New Republic
• New York Times

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Total Reviews: 488


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Fresh Lust, Caution
Fresh Sleuth
Fresh Zodiac
Fresh Family Law
Fresh The Secret Life of Words
Fresh Climates
Fresh Le Petit Lieutenant
Fresh Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles
Fresh World Trade Center
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Rotten Infamous
Rotten Al Franken: God Spoke
Rotten All The King's Men
Rotten The Departed
Rotten Land of the Blind
Rotten United 93
Rotten The Notorious Bettie Page
Rotten The Ice Harvest
Rotten Rosenstrasse
Rotten She Hate Me
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

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"Lust, Caution asks some patience of us, but our patience pays off." -- New Republic
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
Lust, Caution (2007)69%
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"This film wants only to entertain, and other talents have gathered with Pinter to help." -- New Republic
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
Sleuth (2007)35%
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"Gyllenhaal always manages to present a person of some sensitivity without leaning on actorish resources." -- New Republic
Posted Oct 18, 2007
 
Zodiac (2007)89%
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"Particularly good at the tiny details that become recognition points in daily patterns." -- New Republic
Posted Dec 29, 2006
 
Family Law (2006)75%
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"Like Ceylan -- like many a fine director -- Coixet has made her film less as a drama than as the traversal of a state of mind, a mood." -- New Republic
Posted Dec 15, 2006
 
The Secret Life of Words (2006)69%
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Click here to read article -- New York Times
Posted Nov 11, 2006
 
Lotna (1959)n/a
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"Like all good art, it evokes a supranational affinity. And there is an unsurprising paradox: this drama of personal uncertainties is lodged in a certainty of form." -- New Republic
Posted Nov 3, 2006
 
Climates (2006)71%
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"Why did they go ahead anyway? Did they believe that an immense Capote audience was hungering for two films about him?" -- New Republic
Posted Nov 3, 2006
 
Infamous (2006)70%
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"[Xavier Beauvois] is a clean and sure director, with a good selective eye: he knows where we ought to be looking at any moment. We can hope for more Beauvois films with worlds of their own." -- New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
 
Le Petit Lieutenant (2006)79%
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What remains most vividly after Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles, however, is not its story but its world--the immersion in that world of a foreigner, not a polo-shirted Yank but a stiff-necked Japanese. And it is all overseen by a Chinese director. -- New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
 
Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (2006)79%
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"(Director Oliver) Stone has concentrated on one of the catastrophe's stories and has fashioned it well -- with almost palpable physical detail, and with performances that never sink to exploitation." -- New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
 
World Trade Center (2006)70%
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"What (director Neil) Burger and his colleagues have done is to entrance us with a richly acted, beautifully produced story." -- New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
 
The Illusionist (2006)75%
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About [Kelly Reichardt's] directing, after praising her simplicity, one has to praise her daring. To make this film took considerable conviction -- and, for an artist, conviction usually entails courage. -- New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
 
Old Joy (2006)85%
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"This film by Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus forces us to make some decisions about him. For myself, I find him generally gross, in person and in manner." -- New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
 
Al Franken: God Spoke (2006)59%
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"The essence of the film is that [Kushner], with not a touch of evangelistic pomp, cannot conceive of life as anything other than a campaign to improve life." -- New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
 
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006)72%
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"The segments are so cleverly arranged -- [director Michael Apted] includes past pictorial references for each of the people we revisit -- that now there is something almost mystical involved." -- New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
 
49 Up (2006)97%
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"The film isn't dreadful: it is just generally disappointing." -- New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
 
All The King's Men (2006)11%
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"Is Scorsese desperate? This screenplay has the scent of it, as if he is scraping for material to feed his basic filmic interests." -- New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
 
The Departed (2006)92%
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"Apted is a busy director in between these documentaries, the maker of Coal Miner's Daughter and Gorky Park and one of the James Bond pictures. But these Up films are his unique contribution. On to 56 Up." -- New Republic
Posted Oct 6, 2006
 
49 Up (2006)97%
 No Rating  
Click here to read article -- New Republic
Posted Jul 29, 2006
 
Unborn (2003)n/a
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"[Director Patrice Chereau] has drawn exceptional performances from his two principals." -- New Republic
Posted Jul 14, 2006
 
Gabrielle (2005)75%
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"The only matter that interests is the question of Fiennes's presence in this political lesson for children." -- New Republic
Posted Jul 10, 2006
 
Land of the Blind (2006)12%
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"What is strangely transfixing about the film is our agreement, from the beginning, that the struggle is hopeless." -- New Republic
Posted Jul 10, 2006
 
Excellent Cadavers (2006)77%
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"This limitation in source material has had a peculiar effect on the script. Never is there a moment of repulsive sentimentality or exploitation, but neither is Greengrass able to realize an ultimate purpose." -- New Republic
Posted May 12, 2006
 
United 93 (2006)91%
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"The chief pleasure in the picture is Nick Nolte's performance." -- New Republic
Posted May 12, 2006
 
Clean (2006)71%
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"Whatever the outcome of all this hugger-mugger, as yet unresolved, Stolen gives us hints about a special sort of muscle." -- New Republic
Posted May 8, 2006
 
Stolen (2006)67%
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"A moderately engaging satire, some of it amusing and some of it strained, but in considerable measure it reflects a strange circumstance in all our lives." -- New Republic
Posted May 5, 2006
 
American Dreamz (2006)41%
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"Despite the far-off locale, we soon feel surprisingly comfortable, merely because of the film's shape." -- New Republic
Posted May 2, 2006
 
Kekexeli: Mountain Patrol (2006)98%
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"Harron's work here is unclear in its theme or purpose." -- New Republic
Posted May 2, 2006
 
The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)55%
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"Iran's recent growlings under its new president make such a film as Iron Island all the more remarkable." -- New Republic
Posted Apr 21, 2006
 
Iron Island (2006)97%
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"It engages us from beginning to end without strong narrative, or narratives. It lives through the quality of Holofcener's dialogue and the performances that she has drawn from her actors." -- New Republic
Posted Apr 21, 2006
 
Friends With Money (2006)71%
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"We hear all kinds of comments -- about personal satisfactions, dissatisfactions, rewards." -- New Republic
Posted Mar 20, 2006
 
Music From the Inside Out (2004)81%
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"Ang Lee continues to astonish." -- New Republic
Posted Jan 9, 2006
 
Brokeback Mountain (2005)86%
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"Syriana impresses, not because it is very moving, which it isn't, or because it is crystal clear, which it also isn't, but because it is so large, so encompassing, so seemingly privy to inside stuff." -- New Republic
Posted Jan 3, 2006
 
Syriana (2005)74%
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"Robert Benton and Harold Ramis, put on dunce caps and go stand in the corner." -- New Republic
Posted Jan 3, 2006
 
The Ice Harvest (2005)46%
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"It seems quite possible that Me and You marks the arrival of an artist who may affect -- disturbingly yet helpfully -- films and audiences to come." -- New Republic
Posted Aug 10, 2005
 
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)83%
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"Rosenstrasse is again only a sad reminder of the earlier von Trotta." -- New Republic
Posted Aug 28, 2004
 
Rosenstrasse (2004)56%
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"Deville is an experienced director, and he composes this picture very neatly." -- New Republic
Posted Aug 28, 2004
 
Almost Peaceful (2004)73%
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"Lee presumably had two ideas, one an exposé of pharmaceutical greed, the other a sex comedy: then he decided that neither one would make a film in itself and came up with the lame idea of combining them." -- New Republic
Posted Aug 28, 2004
 
She Hate Me (2004)20%
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"Demme serves the picture completely." -- New Republic
Posted Aug 28, 2004
 
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)82%
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"Ozpetek is an enriching director. More than a presentation of its contents, every scene seems also to be a distillation of the matters that led to it." -- New Republic
Posted Jul 21, 2004
 
Facing Windows (2003)64%
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"Sometimes slipshod in its making and juvenile in its travesty, and of course it has no interest in overall fairness to Bush. But it vents an anger about this presidency that, as the film's ardent reception shows, seethes in very many of us." -- New Republic
Posted Jul 11, 2004
 
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)84%
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"The latest in a very long line of films made to give us those things that other mediums could not provide." -- New Republic
Posted Jun 23, 2004
 
Troy (2004)55%
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"The film is a series of scenes, skits, episodes, that show two or sometimes three people smoking and sipping and conversing, usually in grungy places and usually improvising -- at least that's the intended impression." -- New Republic
Posted Jun 13, 2004
 
Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)63%
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"For those who are interested in wartime truth, this film reminds us that the casualty has been somewhat reduced." -- New Republic
Posted Jun 13, 2004
 
Control Room (2004)96%
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Click here to read article -- New Republic
Posted May 26, 2004
 
Since Otar Left (2004)98%
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"Babenco has fashioned his film without polemic intent but with all the art at his command, which is considerable." -- New Republic
Posted May 26, 2004
 
Carandiru (2004)68%
 No Rating  
Click here to read article -- New Republic
Posted May 26, 2004
 
Bulgarian Lovers (2003)56%
 No Rating  
Click here to read article -- New Republic
Posted May 26, 2004
 
Strayed (2004)73%
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"Welcome to Yoji Yamada. After decades of comedies, he arrives -- in this country, at least -- with a uniquely touching samurai film." -- New Republic
Posted May 2, 2004
 
Twilight Samurai (2004)98%

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